Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-11

tains as much water as the other does of
milk, the temperature of the milk being
SO 9 and of the water 48 @. In a short
time the thermometer will show us that
the milk and the water are the same
temperature, Or $50 the water having
taken part of the heat from the milk,
thereby increasing its own temperature
and decreasing that of the milk.
If acan of milk were placed in 2
large quantity of water as in a well,
there would be SO much more water
than milk that the milk would be re-
duced to the temperature of the water.
It would befound that the temperature
of the milk had not only been decreas.
ed, but that the cream had arisen to
the surface, if the milk had been left
long enough in the water. Why?
Water on cooling shrinks and becomes
denser; that is, weighs more, cubic
foot for foot. Now, when the milk is
placed in the cold water it is gradual
ly cooled. but it does not cool evenly.
The 81 per cent of water cools more
rapidly than the other Is per cent of
fats. ETC., and consequently shrinks and
becomes heavier. If we put two
liquids in a vessel together the
heavier one will sink to the bottom and
the lighter n rise to the top; just so
the watery part of the milk settles to
the bottom of TIE can and the lighter
part, which does not coolso rapidly
as the water and therefore shrinks
slower. rises to the top.
There is one point which must not
be overlooked in the above reasoning.
We have said that cooling milk causes
it to shrink and become heavier, but
the temperature must lever be below
$50. Water shrinks as it cools to
$50, and then begins to expand if
cooled further. Cooling below 49, is,
therefore, detrimental.-Prairie Farm
er.
MONTANA HORSE
The following is taken from a Monta-
ma paper; ':In all the Associated Press
reports East and West, and amid all the
rumors of disastrous losses in cattle and
sheep, we see not a word of losses in
horses on the ranges and no expression
of anxiety as to how they will come out
in the Spring. The horse is peculiarly
adapted to rustling for himself and will
be found wandering over the hills in
good condition when cattle are curvin9
their backs in some coulee. The horse,
when beginning to feel the cold, will
take a two or three-mi]e dash, increase
his circulation, and then go to feeding
again paving through the snow to the
grass, a thing that cattle will not do.
The climate of Montana develops the
hardy qualities of the horse and within
a few years her horses will be in de-
mand all over the Union because OF
their staying qualities, and Montana
will furnish a large quota of horses for
the markets. Motana's horse-raising
will continue and enlarge because of the
surer and better investment"
RING WASTE.
A writer upon sheep husbandry COM
plains that the tariff works unfairly by
admitting ring waste at ,one-third Of
the duty paid on wool. Upon this point
a correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
writes: The proportion of .sring waste"
to remainder of imports of wool is very
small, and as the total imports of wool
average year by year only about one
fifth of the wool consumed in this coun-
try, it is not likely that the prices of
wool would be sensibly affected, even if
''ring waste, should be admitted free,
unless it was manufactured" for this
purpose, to evade duty.
COST OF WHEAT RAISING.
According to the report of the Penn
sylvania State Board of Agriculture the
cost of raising a bushel of wheat varied
from seventy-fve cents to 81 a bushel,
with an average crop of from fourteen
to twenty bushels per acre. The con
mittee on cereals added that wheat is
not grown with profit in a major por-
ton of the State. That it is only by
close management and by reckoning a
low rate of interest on land that it is
grown without actual loss. That farm
ers to be successful must turn their at
tention to growing more corr and coarse
grains and to a greater variety in farm
ing.